Remember physics class in high school where they give you the box and you’re supposed to shine a light through some holes and see light as waves but it passes through the holes as particles? This photo brought it all back. Isn’t it great? The photo is from an article in New ScientistTech. Among other […]
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Just saw The Incredible Hulk this afternoon. I really enjoyed it. It seems that the super hero movies are really getting much, much better since Marvel decided to maintain control over the process. This is the Hulk — tortured by what he’s become, afraid to be around people, desperate to control the beast within, determined […]
I ran across this Wired article that mentioned an article in the March issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry that internet addiction be included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Really, people get a grip. This is the kind of stuff that causes non-psychologists/psychiatrists to believe that all mental disorders are […]
Today I was reading Amazon Daily and found a link to an article by Luc Sante, “The Book Collection That Devoured My Life” in the Wall Street Journal. I read through the article and I laughed and I commiserated and I thought, “Here is a kindred spirit.” Here’s two quotes that give a flavor of […]
All this weekend, we’ve been clearing up the yard and prepping the garden areas for planting. We’d done this awhile back (the preparation bit) but then with rainy stormy weekends and weekends with temps above 100 — well it didn’t get done. So, this weekend we did it. We got the new herbs for this […]
The quote above was made by Carl Sagan. That quote has become even more meaningful recently with the release of a new research study by Zita Martins, Oliver Botta, Marilyn L. Fogel, Mark A. Sephton, Daniel P. Glavin, Jonathan S. Watson, Jason P. Dworkin, Alan W. Schwartz and Pascale Ehrenfreund. The title of the paper […]
We just finished watching all three of the extended movies that make up Lord of the Rings (Directed by Peter Jackson). Understand, we didn’t do a marathon — we watched about half a movie a night and finished tonight. It’s a way to unwind. However, every time I watch, my husband (Hyperion: Poor, poor, pitiful, […]
It seems that when the Mars soil was first scooped up and the arm tried to dump it in the ovens there was a bit of a problem. The soil was clumpy and things didn’t turn out quite the way they were expected too. However, scientists on Earth sent commands to jiggle/vibrate the screens over […]